February 2, 2012
If a woman is completely drunk then she is incapable of giving consent to sex, right? Well not according to Emily Yoffe aka Dear Prudence. In her web chats this week she completely dismissed a scenario where a woman stated she had been date raped on the basis that she had gotten very drunk in ...
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January 23, 2012
Last summer, the Vancouver Police Department started a campaign to try to cut the city’s growing rate of sexual assaults. Three posters with pictures of intoxicated young women were put up in bars and nightclubs around Vancouver with the slogan “Don’t Be That Guy.” The good news is that Deputy Chief Doug LePard announced that ...
December 15, 2011
You’ll be amazed to learn that people do silly things when drunk. Like having sex sans condom. But don’t take my word and everyone else’s for it. Researchers at Canada’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health found that study participants who had consumed alcohol were more likely to say they’d have condomless sex than sober ...
October 14, 2011
Too many people only have sex when they are drunk after a night out on the town or a dinner date with their partner. Did you know that alcohol can both dull the experience mentally and make your body function poorly (i.e. soft erections and lack of lubrication)? Want good sex? Do it sober.
August 29, 2011
Almost 50 percent of women prefer to have sex drunk. Any way you look at it, that number is pretty darn high. A study of three thousand women aged 18-50 revealed drinking before sex lessened the anxieties they had about their bodies, and made them more confident and adventurous. On average, the women surveyed had ...
February 22, 2010
The UK has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in Western Europe and the government is constantly putting money into sex education programs, birth control, and the like to help reduce this. But I have a more radical (realistic?) idea on how to curb teenage pregnancy: the culture of alcohol and drinking in the UK is the ...
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September 27, 2009
Mick // Almost half of British women prefer drunken sex and one in 20 have never had sex sober, according to a new survey. More worrying is that three out of four women like a couple of glasses of wine before sleeping with their boyfriend or husband, and 14 percent need it. Why does it ...